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A heads-up to any who may have missed it the first time round: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) expositionary was abandoned a (long) while back. I closed up shop for good today, locking all entries that weren't fic or meta. Feel free to defriend this journal now. If you'd like, re-friend at the new one: it's a combination of real-life & fic/fandom. Over and out. ♥
moving on to »»» wanderlight.
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Happy New Year's, all. I'm back; apologies for being remiss in reading the flist. I blame illness, my education, and my personal journal (wanderlight) for the long absence from fandom.
I'm on winter break now, so hopefully I'll finally be able to finish various fics and post them. To begin with, fic from a fandom most of you haven't even heard of. ;)
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title: This Is the Way the World Ends
rating: PG
characters: Lone Power, the Earth
words: ~500
summary: In my beginning is my end. A look at an apocalypse, of sorts, through the eyes of the Lone Power.
notes: This is not the story I set out to write, I'll admit. I claimed a prompt for the ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) myriadwords challenge, long ago, and I still owe labellementeuse fic for that (!) — but instead, you get this snippet. I'm not quite sure what it is. Title and summary text stolen from T.S. Eliot.
( In my beginning is my end. )
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1 I am alive, contrary to popular belief; just incredibly busy with school and occupied with various other unimportant things. In fact, the only reason I actually finished a piece of writing is because I've been sick at home for most of the week with nothing to do (which is a little bit sad, in many ways, now that I reflect on it). So, ah, I bring you a repost of something I wrote for darkening_days, a comm you should all be watching if you aren't already.
title: Transitional
pairing: Gen
characters: Remus, Lily, werewolves.
rating: PG-13
words: 400
summary: There exist some things that no one wants to see.
notes: Written for the darkening_days prompt becoming. Crossposted. The idea is one that's been rattling around inside my mind since I started plotting this a long piece of Remus + werewolves genfic, and the prompt made me itch to write this snippet out.
( but the blood is fresh, and there's been no decay )
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1 School starts again for me on the fifth; I'm wasting the remainder of my summer by reading a lot of fic and writing a lot of horrible original fiction and fic. This week I'm doing a bit of volunteering -- the type you actually have to wake up early for -- so that should get me sorted on a regular sleep schedule again. Hopefully. Judging from the fact that it's midnight now, perhaps not.
2 The fic I'm currently writing is killing me. Thus, my rantings, as thinly-disguised meta! This is a bit all-over-the-place; it's about personal canon, it's about writing multiple takes on the same character/event, and it's also about reading them. Bear with my midnight-induced ramblings. ;)
( fic: writing multiple, varying 'takes' on the same characters and events )
Aside: Um, I'm sorry I didn't get back to all responses on the last meta post. I was busy, but now, suitably contrite, I will try better this time. ;)
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Series title: Runaway: A Story About Sirius Black and Remus Lupin
Series summary: During the sweltering summer of 1976, Sirius Black leaves one family, joins another, and falls in love.
Series authors: The Runaway Writers
Installment title: Chapter Seventeen: At the Crossroads
Installment author: expositionary
Word count: 1,480
Prologue | One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven | Eight | Nine | Ten | Eleven | Twelve | Thirteen | Fourteen | Fifteen | Sixteen | Seventeen
( Chapter Seventeen: At the Crossroads )
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Series title: Runaway: A Story About Sirius Black and Remus Lupin
Series summary: During the sweltering summer of 1976, Sirius Black leaves one family, joins another, and falls in love.
Series authors: The Runaway Writers
Installment title: Chapter Fifteen: Discord and Dissonance
Installment author: expositionary
Word count: 1,430
Prologue | One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven | Eight | Nine | Ten | Eleven | Twelve | Thirteen | Fourteen | Fifteen
( Chapter Fifteen: Discord and Dissonance )
This one took me an age and a half to tweak to my satisfaction, and I'm afraid that it's more Regulus-reflects-on-Sirius than Remus/Sirius, but at least it's done now.
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Series title: Runaway: A Story About Sirius Black and Remus Lupin
Series summary: During the sweltering summer of 1976, Sirius Black leaves one family, joins another, and falls in love.
Series authors: The Runaway Writers
Installment title: Chapter Eight: Garden Party
Installment author: expositionary
Word count: 1,970
Prologue | One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven | Eight
( Chapter Eight: Garden Party )
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1 virginia_bell had the brilliant idea of holding a Christmas genfic exchange. ♥ If you're at all interested, pop over to her journal and say so; I'd love for something like this to happen.
2 If you're watching dogdaysofsummer -- and if you're an R/S shipper and not over at dogdays, shame on you! -- you'll have seen this pop up. But if not, I'm directing you thataway!
Six of us (closet_zebra, expositionary, last_radio, magnetic_pole, plumerri, and sazzlette) are writing a Remus/Sirius serial this month, tackling the period of time in which Sirius leaves Grimmauld Place.
I'm having altogether too much fun with this, alongside the stress of living up to much better writers than myself, so if you haven't taken a look already, we're posting everything at dogdays_runaway. ♥
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Series title: Runaway: A Story About Sirius Black and Remus Lupin
Series summary: During the sweltering summer of 1976, Sirius Black leaves one family, joins another, and falls in love.
Series authors: The Runaway Writers
Installment title: Chapter Four: A Moonlit Stroll
Installment author: expositionary
Word count: 1,970
Prologue | One | Two | Three | Four
( Chapter Four: A Moonlit Stroll )
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1 I think I may actually start posting in this journal. :O Not so much real life stuff -- go to thelios for that -- but just general fandom-ish thoughts. I feel a bit strange, commenting and reading the f-list, and giving only radio silence in return.
2 Reading fic is interfering with my ability to write in the past tense. -- No, it really is; yesterday I was attempting to write my Regulus train!fic in past tense, just so that I wouldn't get out of practice, and I found myself shifting into the present every few sentences. (Why I'm writing Regulus fic when I have five Remus/Sirius stories in progress I have no idea, but that isn't the point.) Present tense simply seems more natural for me these days, but it's worrying; I'd still like to be able to write in the past, as it's the more generally-accepted tense for most published fiction. :( Which sort of brings me to the actual point of this post.
( why are you in fandom? )
So, yes. Any thoughts you happen to have on this topic of writing & fandom, I'd be glad to hear. :)
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title: Remnants of a War
pairing: Remus/Sirius
characters: Remus-centric; mentions of Sirius, James, Lily, Peter; cameos by Frank, Dumbledore, and various other Order members.
rating: PG
words: 3,546
summary: In the aftermath of the first war, Remus deals with betrayal, loss, and displacement. This is the series of events, after the end, that led up to his departure.
notes: Huge thanks to the lovely last_radio for the beta job. Amazingly, this fic was originally gen, but somehow R/S managed to insinuate itself. Believe what they tell you, children, slash fanfiction really is subversive...
( the omnipresent fallen-angel of anguish )
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I've been home sick for the past few days, because an entire school year's worth of sleep deprivation destroys my immune system like you wouldn't believe. For the better part of it, I have been reading and writing fic instead of studying for next week's finals. I also read a few H.G. Wells books -- The Invisible Man and The Time Machine -- and have yet to unearth why they are subtitled, respectively, "A Grotesque Romance" and "A Scientific Romance". Anyone care to enlighten me? (Concidentally, A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright is a gorgeously written book, and everyone should read it.)
Right now I have a full five fics in progress, a huge headache, and three English commentaries to finish (two for Things Fall Apart, one for Twelfth Night), so naturally, I'm posting some of my random, half-coherent rants thoughts on writing instead of actually doing some work. If I fail this year, it's fandom's fault.
( meta-ish: words vs. stories )
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title: All the Falling Stars
pairing: Remus/Sirius
rating: PG
words: 1, 001 (palindrome power!)
summary: Sirius is acting strangely: reticent, composed. James doesn't understand, but Remus thinks that, perhaps, he might. Includes the Marauder dynamic, with undertones and overtones of Remus/Sirius.
notes: Started as part of a multi-era fic, decided to be Sirius gen for a while, and eventually became R/S. (Why is it that R/S always hijacks my genfic for use in its master plan?) Also, thanks to artfulsincerity for the read-over.
( if he opened his mouth, Remus thinks, he could taste the storm brewing between scarlet-gold and green-silver )
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title: an autobiography, in aprils
summary: A conceptual sketch: three years, three Aprils. Interesting, how things change.
words: 459
notes: No, it's not fic. It'd be stretching it a bit, even, to say that this was original fiction -- it's sort of autobiographical, it's sort of not; it's embellished slightly (what writer doesn't embellish?), and contains various references to a) book quotes, b) lyrics, c) my life. I told myself that I would archive everything I wrote here, just for posterity's sake, even insane stream-of-consciousness pieces written at midnight: so I will, but I warn you, it makes no sense, and it abuses commas.
( still, epigrams and aphorisms are a poor substitute for the meaning of life )
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title: A Definition of Longing
pairing: Remus/Sirius
rating: PG
words: 530
summary: On the consciousness of a werewolf and the meanings of emotions.
notes: More like a number of introspective pieces strung together instead than actual fic in which things happen; Plotline and I have a long-standing feud.
( he files Sirius away in the back of his mind, next to the other things he desperately wants )
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title: The Consequences of Springtime
pairing: Remus/Sirius
rating: G
words: 439
summary: Remus Lupin has decided that he cannot stand spring, and this is why.
notes: Inspired, in part, by wellymuck's prompt for day three; I may or may not end up posting it there. This ficlet uses something I like to call point-collapse -- the actual piece is set at one specific point in time, and the narrative collapses down to that point (if that makes any sense whatsoever). Unfortunately, I have yet to pull this off successfully, ever.
( spring -- damn it -- creeps in through the drapes and the windows and the open doors )
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Explanations and Clarifications
This wasn't intended as an argument so much as a conglomeration of many of my thoughts on fanon and fanfiction, in terms of evolution. I've tried to organize my ideas as clearly as possible in writing, but apologize beforehand in being verbose (the meaning of "less is more" is lost on me). It's helpful, but not at all necessary, if you know at least a little bit about evolution and natural selection before reading. Much as I hate biology class, these concepts somehow wormed their way into my discussion on fanon, and I do make reference to them, if rather obscurely.
Definition of certain terms I use... because I know that these, can change slightly in connotation depending on which part of fandom you inhabit. Canon is a collection of ideas/facts/concepts which are part of the universe a writer creates when writing a book. Fanon—I have no idea where this term came from, but I think it's quite clever—is the opposite: all of the aspects of a fandom which have been developed by the fans, are not necessarily supported by the actual texts, and have no place in canon. Therefore fandom, I suppose, includes both canon and fanon (not to mention all of its other elements: meta, graphics, discussion, etc.).
( A Discussion On the Evolution of Fanon )
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(I use the word "drabble" loosely: no way I would have enough self-control to cut and tweak these to exactly one hundred words.)
"Double Helices" | The Blacks | PG
A/N This what happens when the reading of too much Black-centric fanfiction and studying for a Biology exam collide. Sirius reflects on marriage and family lines.
( sometimes too close )
"An Odyssey" | Remus/Sirius | PG
A/N Remus, on Sirius' return after Azkaban. Many words, not much action. Again, a product of insanity due to homework -- studying The Odyssey in English class and somehow finding that it parallels R/S.
( I love him still, but who is he? )
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title: Ashes and Memory
summary: There are many different ways to win and lose a war.
notes: The story which ended the long drought of not writing anything at all. Truth be told, it's more of an overview/sketch of a story than a story -- but this is the original. Since it was written a few months ago, the storyline and the characters have spawned an entirely different novel-length plotline which was originally attached to the story but somehow expanded past it. The original is still being re-worked.
( screams did not count as last words )
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